Favorite music genre

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 4, 2022:

You also don't list alternative rock, which is quite different than most mainstream rock or classic rock, so your poll really doesn't give me an option that represents my true tastes. You also don't list country, but I've got a feeling that country is probably about the least popular genre among members here, mainly because of how religious it is, along with how politically and culturally conservative it is.

‘Pro-Life’ Herschel Walker Paid for Girlfriend’s Abortion Georgia Senate

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 4, 2022:

The guy is just a lying, phony hypocrite, thru and thru, but in the Repub Party, that is not only common, it is a badge of honor and a qualification for office... He's also no different than a lot of other male pro athletes, who pretend to be Holy Joe on Sun. and in public, but behind the scenes, are just another man-whore...

Why is it that I always nearly max out these age related lists?

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 3, 2022:

I would have to agree I know the vast majority of these, but not all of them. Anybody older than 50 will know way more than 16 of them.

How many of you would sit down with this as soon as it came in or as soon as your parents finished ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 3, 2022:

In my area, it was the Sears and Roebuck catalog...

50 and 60 bring on even more changes.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 3, 2022:

Older age and body changes didn't happen quite that fast or drastically, at least for me, but the point is taken and does apply. The real milestone was age 45, where my body started to hurt and bother me too much to keep playing full court basketball anymore. And because of that, by age 50, I had lost my flat belly for the first time ever, never to return.

Do cartoons still have deeper meanings?

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 3, 2022:

I learned as much from newspapers as from cartoons, back at those ages, that the real monsters were always humans who either sought wealth and power, had them already, or both....

I had to correct my t-shirt

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 3, 2022:

With my life, the shirt would have been spelled correctly the first time....

The business cry for years was train people for the jobs, don't train them to think and this is what...

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 2, 2022:

So true on both counts. I have met so many tech people that are inevitably conservatives or Libertarians, because they have never studied any liberal arts or humanities courses, so they know nothing of history, economics, sociology, poli sci, philosophy, etc, and think there is a technical solution to everything, so they vote for technocrat and fascist leaders. And they totally think that money is everything and that the strong should be able to run over the weak and everybody else, same as the rich over everybody else. And they love dog eat dog competition, since they were always the smartest kids in school, so they are glad to work for corporations that exploit most of them, because their kind would never join any unions in their industry, since individualism reigns supreme with them. Yes, they are a curse on our society when it comes to politics and the atomizing of our society.

In case no one has told you today...

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 2, 2022:

It never hurts to be told that, and I don't get it near often enough, after my late wife got dementia and then I lost her. Fortunately, two of my female friends validated that last night, despite what about all the women on this site may think of me..

Why So Many Spiritual People Refuse To Call Themselves 'Religious' | John Cappello | YourTango

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 2, 2022:

The online dating sites recognize this and Match has the religious affiliation category, along with Christian, Catholic, etc. of Spiritual, but not religious as one of the label choices for members to use for themselves. I use it because, frankly, where I live, being labeled Agnostic is not only seen as a red flag by most women who grew up here, even if they are not very religious, but most people where I live are too ignorant to even know what the label Agnostic means. So I cop out and use the first label simply to avoid outright rejection and give myself a chance to get my foot in the door, so to speak, and allow myself to be considered and for the woman to get a chance to get to know me more before springing the label Agnostic on her during either the messaging phase or the first in person meeting. I have found that if I delay it like that, most women are ok with the Agnostic label by then, tho some aren't. If the woman is only moderately religious, they usually are not put off by the label Agnostic later on, but if they are strongly religious, and are hiding that in their profile, they end up rejecting me anyway, every time.

I love this!

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 1, 2022:

That is so true, it's all about supply, demand and location. Unfortunately, I live in a shitty, mismatched dating pool for me, where guys with my traits and type have a very low supply of women who are compatible, and thus, little demand for my type around here in the dating game. Which leaves me with only two other options, neither of which are really viable or worth the trouble, moving away to a better dating pool, like Chicago or Minneapolis (and leaving behind my local friends which are my only support system), or dating long distance, which I have looked into in the past and nobody I connected with was interested in doing that with me. So, I am stuck with being the 50 cent bottle of water that sits on the shelf past its expiration date... But I bet if I had above average looks, instead of average looks, more women would overlook my offbeat traits and be willing to date me. Same if I had more money and wanted to play Sugar Daddy, which I would never do. But that is the reality of the dating game, if you don't have great looks, won't be or can't be a Sugar Daddy, and are mismatched on traits with the vast majority of your local dating pool. You are the drink that is an unpopular flavor and not cheap enough to compete with the more popular flavors on the local market. It also doesn't help that I have three guys for every woman in my local dating pool, that are in my age range. I have done the test for this three times where I used the library's computers to set up a dummy female profile and run a search of men that matched the traits I am seeking in a woman, that are compatible with my traits in my profile. So what are we supposed to do, Chicago gal that is the OP here? Move to another, better dating pool? Waste our time trying to date LD? Or just sit on the shelf waiting to expire and die alone?

I am positive there's women or a woman somewhere that I'd get a long with great ,and I look forward ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 1, 2022:

Rotsa ruck, and they say my attitude is too negative to attract any good women, lol..... I absolutely promise you it will never happen for you until you get the needed professional help...

It's not healthy to deny the freedom of life ,that locked down was hell on earth.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 1, 2022:

We all can detect your obvious sweet disposition that is underneath all this venom and crazy talk you put out here, most of which is unprovoked, BTW...

I posted a singles ad meme yesterday mocking MTG's pending divorce.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 30, 2022:

Sorry, I don't date or screw crazy or totally stupid trash, at least not if I know that about them going into it.... I try to go for women with brains bigger than their boobs, as well... tho I do confess I have always favored curvy women...

Christian influencer gets holy water breast implants

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 30, 2022:

Good gravy, what a nutjob!

Hallmark for cats...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 30, 2022:

For the few cats that care enough to bother with sending a card, even fewer that would send a card for your birthday...

And usually sideways

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 30, 2022:

Maybe they want to be sure you know who their best and only friend is?

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TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 29, 2022:

It is a great, sad song. I sing it once in a great while at karaoke. Another like it is What's The Matter Here? by 10,000 Maniacs.

A farmer is out working his crops in the field when a stranger driving by stops.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 29, 2022:

Or maybe the farmer, as are most people here in Iowa and the Midwest in general, is too "Iowa Nice" or, as I see it, too chickenshit to actually speak up and voice a negative opinion on anyone. You don't live in my area of the country, where most people are infuriatingly too chickenshit to confront anyone or speak a negative opinion about anyone, esp. to their face. Unless they are really angry. So, I must dissent from the bandwagon opinion that this farmer is so fucking wise.... Some people are generally nice, friendly, and tolerant, others are usually assholes, and how they act is usually not that dependent on who they are living around or encountering from time to time.

Trump Wanted To Send Murderers and Rapists to Cities Democrats Controlled Former Department of ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 29, 2022:

Not only do they want to exploit these immigrants for political gain, I know for a fact that these Repub motherfuckers will turn around and hire these undocumented immigrants for their cheap labor while in the same breath bashing them as criminals, etc. I personally worked at a plant several years ago owned by a man who is one of the biggest Repub donors in my state. His son was the president of the company and it was an open secret that many of the guys he hired there were in the country illegally. And this was after years earlier, the company had layed off or fired most of its workers here, and outsourced almost all of its production work to Taiwan. I guess for Repub business owners, you can never cut costs enough, or get cheap enough labor to make you happy with your profits....

Never forget, November is coming.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 28, 2022:

Vote away all you want, just don't have any illusions that it will really change anything at the federal level not related to culture war issues like abortion and identity politics stuff like gays, God, etc.. Because if you do, you will be quickly disappointed by the corporate Dems who have all the power in that party. Remember the secret party slogan that Biden blurted out to his corporate donors at a private event a few years ago, "Nothing will fundamentally change"...

Never forget, November is coming.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 28, 2022:

Yup, once the kid pops out, the mom and kid are instantly seen as moochers, or, as Mitt Romney put it, "takers" who are leeching off those job-creating corporations and rich folks.... If only we started using guillotines here to put some fear into those assholes...

It is not a question of either or, it is a question of why or why not.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 28, 2022:

Nope, that would be considered a waste of money and, besides, it wouldn't be as profitable for a few rich people as crashing something into an asteroid or the military blowing up something in a foreign country, so that another American contractor could later rebuild it.

When my kids were growing up, they had Sesame Street.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 28, 2022:

Bugs was nobody's fool, and he was my role model in that...

So Rolling Stone just came out with top100 tv shows of all time.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 28, 2022:

Mad Men.

Proud Boys, Neo-Nazis, and White Nationalists Protested ‘Drag Bingo’ at Texas Church

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 28, 2022:

If either side had begun shooting their guns, it would have been interesting to see which side, if any, the cops on the scene would have taken.

Such a perfect warrant

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 28, 2022:

I would also add that 2 or 3 conglomerates control almost all of the dating sites and apps., so no wonder the products and services keep getting shittier all the time, while the prices keep going up. They don't give a shit at all about helping people actually connect and find compatible partners, they just care about raking in as much money as possible... That is the American way of business these days, buy or eliminate your competition, then make your product or service as cheap as possible for you, since you have no real competition, then raise the prices all you want, because you can and your customers have no where else to go that is better or cheaper.

Proud Boys, Neo-Nazis, and White Nationalists Protested ‘Drag Bingo’ at Texas Church

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 27, 2022:

Gotta love Texas, where they love their guns and both people on the right and the left are usually packing heat... To me, the one good thing about it is that with the queer folks on the left packing guns, the cops are way less likely to risk brutalizing them the way they did with the unarmed BLM protesters. Armed protesters are more likely to keep the cops honest about how they deal with them... Esp. after seeing how chickenshit and cowardly the cops were in that school shooting down there.

Girl kicked out of Christian school after refusing to take picture in bathtub

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 27, 2022:

Sounds pretty pedophile to me...

Just did a double check to make sure I’m ready for November.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 26, 2022:

Vote away all you want to.... But in federal elections it will make little difference on anything but culture war issues, as both major parties serve the same corporate donors. In state and local elections, voting might actually make a difference on issues of economics, taxes, and public spending, so concentrate on those races in voting.

Ouch! Living in America is crazy even for crazy Ozzy Osbourne.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 26, 2022:

If I was that rich and could live anywhere, I would be in BC, British Columbia..

An example of the right politicizing something that had no political content, and even worse, an ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 26, 2022:

While the Dilbert strip is usually right on the money in making fun of how fucked up corporate life and workplace politics are, he has always been a right wing asshole, so I have always hated him personally and ignored the messenger is this case.

I wonder if Tina Forte and her drug dealer family are aware that casting for The Sopranos ended 15 ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 25, 2022:

She's too late for The Sopranos, tho she would have fit right in with them, and she's too old for Jersey Shore, so I guess that leaves her with just Repub politics. Yes, she is a a buffoon and I'm sure there's no way she will get elected over AOC. She is probably just there to excite the base, attract publicity for the party and help other Repubs on the ballot there with turnout. I do have to admit it would be fun to watch her debate AOC, altho it would surely degenerate into a shouting match the same as the debate between Trump and Biden. It would be entertaining, but totally uninformative...

Cat in therapy...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 25, 2022:

Cats are such stressed, aggrieved creatures, except for when they are blissfully napping, while dreaming of treats, hunting mice and birdies, etc... They have such a hard life, and it's hard work staying that cute....

There’s a shark on my head isn’t there

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 25, 2022:

Kitty looks very scared or confused about the shark....

Trump Tells Hannity He Can Declassify Secret Documents With Just His Mind During a recent ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 24, 2022:

You mean, instead of waving a magic wand, he simply thinks them into de-classification?

Republican Senator Says God Sent Rain to Oklahoma as Payment for Anti-Abortion Laws In a recent ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 24, 2022:

He must have forgot the story of Noah and the flood...

A National Year Of Humiliation U.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 24, 2022:

I'm embarrassed to admit I am familiar with Miller-Meeks from Iowa. She is a nutcase that represents a rural Iowa district full of hicks and ignorant idiots, so that is how she gets elected over and over.

I knew I shouldn’t have had that last slice of pizza

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 24, 2022:

Kitty has a funny tummy now....

It's not healthy to deny the freedom of life ,that locked down was hell on earth.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 24, 2022:

The 14 months of Covid where I was pretty much sheltering at home were very tough and lonely for me, but I never blamed the rest of the world for it, and did my best to adjust to it. I coped by making a lot of phone calls to friends who were going thru the same thing, reading a lot, borrowing books from the library, watching a lot of TV, surfing the net, and visiting Agnostic a lot, as back then there were a lot more active members. Then, after I was finally able to get vaxed, I started getting back out there to enjoy karaoke, live bands, movies, and, finally, live theater again. I resolved to start living my life again as normally as possible once vaxed and I am determined to keep doing so, as long as being vaxed and boosted protects me from serious illness and death. The only things I am holding back on are commercial air travel and out of the country travel.

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TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 23, 2022:

Cats can make chasing their own tail so damn cute!

My feral has started bringing me stuff, so I'm on the look out

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 23, 2022:

Their hearts are in the right place and they mean well....

It's not healthy to deny the freedom of life ,that locked down was hell on earth.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 23, 2022:

Not the best way to intro yourself to the community, jus' sayin'... Interesting username, since your style is anything but laidback....

Never heard of the Somali before. What a beauty!

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 22, 2022:

Such a huge fluffy tail..

UMass football team schedules 'Pride Day' for game against Liberty U.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 21, 2022:

I dunno, all that hugging between the male Liberty players looks kind of homoerotic to me.....

They are plotting my demise...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 21, 2022:

I would be worried too, if I were their hooman... They have probably already interviewed and selected your replacement. It will be made to look like an accident...

I guess that makes them neither of either.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2022:

Most people make the easy mistake of thinking Repubs can be shamed by others pointing out their obvious hypocrisy. Maybe a long time ago they could be, but not in this century...

Cats and their tiny crocheted couches.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2022:

They also love their boxes...

A bit of fluff for the day.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2022:

I have to go with Mr. Burns...

Haven't had a girlfriend in 14 years.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2022:

I'm sure living in GA doesn't help. All the non-believers probably either live in Athens or the Atlanta area. You seem to live in that area, so you may have way more luck than me.

the orange traitor

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 19, 2022:

I esp. like the first meme, about how for decades the Dem Party has been led by pussies and corporate Dems, who never fought back or played hardball against the Repubs, because they were equally corrupt and had no intention of being a real opposition party. That is why liberalism no longer has any credibility with average Americans and neither does the Dem Party, because neither one deserves it. And that is how the white working class, after being overwhelmingly loyal to the Dems historically, was driven into the arms of the Repub Party.

sad hospital visit

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 19, 2022:

The South is a shithole, third world country, in and of itself. I so wish it would secede from the US.... It has all the qualities of the foreign places Trump condemns, and yet, it is the place in our country where he has his greatest level of support and popularity. Can you say irony?? But Repub supporters are mostly too damned dumb to get or sense irony about anything..

Instead of restricting it by high prices, educate every person in whatever their abilities allow ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 19, 2022:

No need to sell me on it, but the rich, corporations, and our leaders want anything but this to happen. They want the masses ignorant and dumb, but just smart enough to be able to run the machines at work. That is, until they can be replaced by machines....

Don't forget which party wants to restrict all your rights.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 18, 2022:

Unfortunately, too many Americans only care about four freedoms, the freedom to hate everyone who is different than you, the freedom to own guns, the freedom to believe in their religion of choice, (but not in any other religion) and the freedom to own the libs. As for as the rest of their own freedoms, they really don't care when the government takes them away..., such as the Patriot Act or the NSA spying on Americans...

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TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 18, 2022:

As has been said ad nauseum on these boards, even if the Christians become a minority of the population, they will still dominate the politics of America..

Dear God I just want to say you really like to hide from your children on earth and watch all of us ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 18, 2022:

Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel, lol...

SHIT HAPPENS! Close-to-complete ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 17, 2022:

I add the philosophy of the rock band Dawes (not a religion): Things happen, that's all they ever do....

Where the hell do I belong?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 17, 2022:

Congratulations! You are even more of a cultural and lifestyle outlier than I am, in my local dating pool. I always fear that I am terminally unique, but you take the cake. Thanks for letting me know that others have it worse than me when it comes to the dating game. I have no advice...

Lauren Boebert has to be mentally ill.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 16, 2022:

She gives a bad rap to other ignorant trailer trash that deserve better than to be lumped in with her, lol...

I wonder if she wants the job again?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 16, 2022:

I can understand why he had to pay her so much for one sexual encounter. I can't imagine any woman but Melania, if even her, that would allow themselves to be that physically close to him for less money than that.

I wonder if any of the financially inconvenienced millionaires that support the rights of businesses...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 16, 2022:

The answer is NO.... Most Americans are idiots who politically identify with who they admire or aspire to be, even if it's a delusion in thinking that they are or will ever be a member of that club, so they keep voting and politically allying against their own economic interests. If most Americans ever heard George Carlin's rants about the club they are not in, and never will be in, and believed him, we would have much better politics here. The Lucy and Charlie cartoon here is like Trickle Down economics, a myth spread by the rich for their benefit and the fleecing of everybody else, but it works because most of those being fleeced buy into it.

Christianity to lose majority status in US by 2070, per Pew model

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 15, 2022:

We can hope, but in the end, Christianity will still have most of the power and be over-represented in government, regardless of being a minority of the population.

I'm concerned with the design of this group that posts by the Admin seem to be permanently pinned to...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

I prefer the Liberal Progressive group format to this one.

Doublespeak from the Ministry of Truth

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

Not from where I sit and from what I observe around me with my fellow peasants...

Before we lay off any more non essential workers, I suggest these first

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

I would also include the many Dems in congress that are corporate Dems and make up the majority of the party in both houses... The are just as worthless, and opposed to the interests of average Americans, as the Repubs... All those Dems care about is campaign donations of corporate cash, keeping their jobs and perks, while posturing about identity politics and culture war stuff that has no real effect in improving the lives of most average Americans. Which is why so many average Americans have caught onto both major parties and no longer vote in federal elections. In fact, the non-voters outnumber the number of voters who voted for Biden as well as those who voted for Trump. In any other country, that would be seen as a vote of No Confidence for either party.

Ole 3 toes is finally adding class somewhere.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

Trash hanging out with trash...

Iowa human trafficking victim Pieper Lewis sentenced, ordered to pay $150,000 : NPR

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

In the interest of fairness and accuracy, I wanted to share that I saw the story of this case on the front page of the statewide newspaper, The Des Moines Register today. I figured this site's members would be interested in knowing that racism apparently was not an issue in her sentencing. The judge was a black male, same race as her. Sounds like she maybe could have had better legal representation and not settled for the plea bargain that took away her affirmative defense for the stabbing and murder. But that could easily have ended up with a conviction, where a long prison sentence would have been certain. I do hope this troubled young woman does take this opportunity of the fundraising paying her restitution to finally get her head straight and make something positive out of her life. She has clearly suffered greatly and also made some bad choices, along with developing some behavior issues. I think the restitution was excessive, but it's now a moot point. The future is all up to her. I hope she completes her probation and gets into some programs for her issues and learns some job and life skills as well during her probation.

Iowa human trafficking victim Pieper Lewis sentenced, ordered to pay $150,000 : NPR

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

Should have given her a medal and sent her home..

Atheists didn’t finish the job (yet), so God’s Not Dead 5 will come out in 2023

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

Well, I guess it's no different than how Dracula seemed to always come back no matter how many times he got staked, lol... Same as endless Dracula movies, it's all about money... Christianity will never die in American politics...

Had an incident with a religious nut the other day.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

Nice that the establishment did the right thing, since my experience with bars that I go to for karaoke, never seem to do that when someone harasses me for no good reason. But in your case, you had a whole group there that the guy harassed, unlike my experiences where it was more one on one, so they probably figured it was worth bouncing him in order to keep your group coming back. I call that bar economics or bar injustice, where it's not about behavior, but about numbers of each party involved, that determines what, if anything, the bar does after a conflict occurs. In this case, the guy was clearly a nutcase, rather than some regular drunken asshole like I encounter at bars, so hopefully the place will bar him for good with the police call, and if he shows up there again, he will be charged with trespassing and violating a no-contact order they got against him after the police call. I'm like you, in that I enjoy screwing with the heads of religious nuts, but I have begun to realize, like Betty said, that it's probably not worth the risk now that right wingers feel so emboldened to act violently towards us and that you never know which of them might have guns at home or in their vehicle, even if they are unarmed when you encounter them.If we were a sane and civilized country with gun control, the risk from these people would be a lot less, but we aren't and it isn't.

Wednesday morning cuteness...Off to school

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2022:

I remember a neighborhood cat back when I lived in another city, that would follow his owner's kids to school while they rode their bikes. We called him a school cat because he wanted to go to school with the kids he lived with and become smarter. He was a black cat..

Who you going to vote for?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2022:

For now, who knows how much longer we will still have elections for?

Ken Starr, Prosecutor in Clinton Whitewater Probe, Dies at 76 The family said it was ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2022:

The good die young, pricks and bitches live forever, it seems...

A couple of days late, but still relevant.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2022:

We all knew that the Repubs who were so righteous about memorializing 9-11 were fake patriots, with their Support Our Troops bumper stickers and such, and all the while denying the evidence that the Bush admin,. was at least aware of, if not involved in, letting 9-11 happen. But they didn't care about the truth, only about using the event for their own political ends, including getting Dems and people on the left to shut up and support the troops, etc...

Trump supporter shoots family after being radicalized over Trump's loss [newsweek.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2022:

Crazy people and guns, not a good mix. Too bad our system does little to keep crazies from owning guns. This was a tragedy waiting to happen and the right wing internet stuff was there to light the fuse.

Ukraine war veterans on how Kiev plundered US aid, wasted soldiers, endangered civilians, and lost ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2022:

Why does none of that surprise me? The MIC always get all the money they seek from our congress, and more, but nobody ever criticizes it for ballooning the debt or the money being wasted. It's the biggest and best scam in our federal government..

Capitalism versus communism debate [youtu.be]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2022:

Because communism has already become fairly discredited, I would much rather see a debate in which one side argues for democratic socialism, which has been successfully practiced in many countries, and the other side attempt to argue in favor of American capitalism, which in practice is actually a plutocracy for government and neoliberalsim and unchecked capitalism for its economic policies. The argument that societies have only two choices, capitalism and communism or some other totalitarian form of government, is a false one. Socialism has been given a bad name because if its critics constantly lumping it in with communism, falsely and bringing up the boogeymen of Mao and Stalin... But unfortunately, most Americans are too ignorant about politics and economics, along with being brainwashed by the corporate media, so they fall for it...

This guy wants to meet me.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2022:

Sometimes it seem like the scammers aren't even willing to put an honest effort into it, this one's a very lazy scammer... If you want to screw with his head a while, you could play along and be sure to mention how you have a vast fortune and are a lonely widow, etc., I think you can figure out the rest.. Just enjoy having the last laugh when he finally comes around to making the financial ask or wants your banking or identity info, and you tell him to go screw himself...

Chewy randomly and unexpectedly sent me this free painting of my Oliver! 😱 It looks just like ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2022:

Oliver is the new Grumpy Cat..

Holy Babymaking, Batman!

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2022:

Didn't I see some kind of cult fertility ritual of this sort many years ago in the horror film Harvest Home with Bette Davis?

Several posts have been made on this site recently about Hasidic schools in the USA, which are ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 12, 2022:

No, there can't be, but the Repub theocrats are fully committed to no separation of the two, as long as the state religion is fundamentalist Christianity..

"A verbal encounter with police at a Black Lives Matter protest led pregnant activist to 4-year ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2022:

It's bullshit that her lawyer is even having to make the appeal for a reduced sentence solely on grounds of mercy for her medical condition and pregnancy, rather than just on the obvious unfairness of the original sentence and the original charge against her. She was no threat to anyone, unlike the insurrectionists. Typical American justice, one standard for colored defendants and left wing protesters, and another one for whites who are right wing protesters or terrorists, unless the latter group actually kill or shoot somebody that is law enforcement, then they get the book thrown at them... Unless they kill or shoot law enforcement, they always get the kid gloves treatment, since the cops and prosecutors are usually politically allied or at least sympathetic to them.... The story give no details about the sentencing judge, but I have little doubt that he was likely a conservative white man, probably racist, who wanted to put this black woman in her place...

Women: i don't need no man! Car breaks down: thats a mans job! Tree needs to be cut down: ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2022:

He's now up to level 4, so it may be Mission Accomplished...

Who played this ? At school? after school? during the summer?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2022:

Nowadays, seeing a tether ball pole only makes me think of the movie Napoleon Dynamite, where the final scene included a game of that.

Women: i don't need no man! Car breaks down: thats a mans job! Tree needs to be cut down: ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2022:

My guess is the OP just wanted to stir the shit and rile people up, and he succeeded...

So terribly sad the guilt this innocent man has borne.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2022:

He has no reason to feel guilt. The real guilt and blame belong to Cheney and maybe also W., as well as all those in the intelligence community who I have no doubt at least knew 9-11 was going to happen and let it happen, all so Cheney could have his war with Iraq and get their oil, as well as provide the excuse for the War On Terror, the Patriot Act, and other policies to take away our freedoms, civil liberties, and rights to dissent. An added bonus was that 9-11 allowed W. to suddenly rocket in popularity and stature as the country predictably rallied around him and he went from looking like a doofus to a Churchill-like statesman. I'm a pretty cynical person, but even I don't want to think the Cheney and some of his allies in the intelligence community were actively, instead of passively involved in the attack on that day, but either way, it was obvious the government was involved in the demolition and collapse of Building 7 at the World Trade Center, so they knew something was going to happen and were ready that day to work with it to serve their ends.

THE OTHER SIDE.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2022:

I'm so sick of people saying the term, " passed" instead of died or dead. Why the avoidance of the more accurate term and instead using the milder euphanism?

Physical Attraction

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2022:

Your experience is by no means unique. I have run across the profiles of several really hot looking, college educated white professional career women on Match, who only wanted to date black men who were less educated than them, high school level only, for what was obviously just a casual, sex-based relationship, if you can call it that, or dating. It's not hard to figure out where these women's heads were at, maybe some sort of fantasy about black studs, etc. Needless to say, I never messaged any of them after seeing their profile, as I'm not their type or the race they wanted, to each their own.....

Cat Obsessed With Baby Brother Thinks He’s Also A Baby | The Dodo Cat Crazy - YouTube

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2022:

Some cats really do think they are people, this one is so cute and amusing. I have also seen cats who think they are actually dogs and who interact with dogs as if they were the same species..

How The Big Lebowski Inspired Its Own Religion

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2022:

I'm not surprised it inspired a religion. Sounds like it would be fun, as sort of a pseudo religion.

Is this site and group the best approach to a dating site?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2022:

Not sure how to answer your ? This site was originally intended to be a dating site, but that never really came to feasibility. The site never reached the critical mass number of members needed to offer local dating options for more than a very small group of members. Since then, the site has lost the vast majority of members that joined in the last several years. As for finding people here that are interested in poly relationships, I would say the odds are even more uphill than for finding people interested in mono relationships. Rotsa ruck... I like the format of this site for being able to get to know people more deeply and gradually than in other dating sites, where the process is more brief and superficial than here, and would prefer this to the regular paid membership dating sites, but since this site offers no local dating options for me, and never has, since I joined several years ago, it's either Match or nothing for me as far as ever meeting someone to date. And even Match has become a worse site over the last couple years, as is probably the case with all paid dating sites, since they have no real competition and have no incentive to improve their quality and services. It appears that all of them, except E-Harmony maybe, keep making their profile formats worse and more limited, so their usefulness in finding compatible matches keeps getting worse. But the prices keep going up. That's what happens when companies have no real competition, enjoy monopoly power in their industry and have no government regulation either. And the dating sites really have no incentive to help their members successfully find long term compatible matches, as they make more money from keeping you single and a paying member for years and years. So they will, as long as most singles continue to have hope that by remaining a paying member, their ship will come in eventually and as long as the dating sites have enough anecdotal success stories among the public to continue to seem legitimate as a way to meet a partner.

Doesn't this just sound about right?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 10, 2022:

Trump is the proverbial creep who would sell his own grandmother for a nickel...

I've run across several women this summer who, after I connected with them and either traded some ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 9, 2022:

Met another woman last night who labeled herself as Independent on her profile. She rejected me, mainly on not being outdoorsy enough to match her, which I think was probably honest and legit, but what struck me as weird, in hindsight, is that my profile info should have made it pretty clear that I'm not as outdoorsy as most people, so why did she reply to my first message and agree to meet me in the first place? It was obvious once we started talking about politics last night in our meeting, which she doesn't like to discuss, that she is very conservative on the economic issues, with the usual mindset that most poor people made bad choices, deserve to suffer for it, and don't deserve much help from the government or society. I learned this from her bringing up the issue of student debt relief and she had no response when I heard her out, and then brought up the counter arguments of how a highly educated general population is a social and societal good that would improve our politics, government and society, as well as the contrast and lack of justice, fairness, and equality in how corporations receive all kinds of undeserved and unneeded welfare from the govt., same with the military budget, and finally how businesses were all bailed out with Covid relief along with the Wall Street banks that made bad bets and fraudulent loans in the Great Recession and they were not seen as undeserving. She had no answer and changed the subject, but I had already knew we were politically incompatible and just wanted to maybe get her to learn something about her selective standards for who is worth and deserving and who isn't, regarding government help.

Does reversing abortion laws give all non-white Americans a better socio-economic demographic ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 9, 2022:

Whites becoming even more of a racial minority is not a concern for these theocratic, racist fascist nationalists, because, under a totalitarian, fascist government, a minority group can still control the majority oppressed group or groups thru sheer force of the iron fist. Ever hear of South Africa? It's not something that is easy to maintain forever, but it's something that can be implemented, and don't think the Repubs and their white Christian nationalists allies are unwilling to take power, thru elections or civil war, and go for it.

[msnbc.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 9, 2022:

I think public shaming has its place and some constructive uses. Our modern culture and society might benefit some from having it partially returned to more frequent use, at least on the powerful, rich, and famous... Most of America is way too enamoured of the rich, famous, and powerful, who tend to be some of our worst people. All because, in many cases, becoming one of those three groups requires a certain moral flexibility, shall we say, that I find disgusting and shameful.

Physical Attraction

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 9, 2022:

I am gratified to see the fairly even split of votes, because it doesn't surprise me much in my online dating experience. The numbers finally seem to add up and make sense. Let me explain. Almost all the women I have connected with on Match, tho they are only a small subset of the total population in my local online dating pool, tell me that almost all the guys they encounter on Match seem to be only interested in sex rather than actual long term relationships. But at the same time, over 85% of the women in my local dating pool, even tho I am very selective about who I message and reach out to in the first place, reject me without ever replying to me. What I infer from that, for what it's worth, is that there are also plenty of women in my local dating pool who are glad to also, like all the men I keep hearing about, go ahead and date someone otherwise incompatible if they are hot enough looking and the sex is great. Because so many women are rejecting me, due to looks or maybe also or instead feeling I'm not compatible, even tho they seem to be compatible on paper, otherwise I wouldn't have messaged them in the first place. So looks and dating just for sex, seem to be the unspoken factors, at least in my experience, of who gets chosen for dating, rather than it being mostly or always based on compatibility traits that show up on paper and in profiles, so to speak. And it goes both ways with each gender. Which is what people have been saying for years on this site as well as what the research has shown. Looks matter way more than most people are willing to admit in their dating choices, except maybe in polls like this, where people are willing to privately admit what their priorities are in dating and partner selection. I have no doubt that, in spite of how mismatched I am on paper with the local dating pool, on traits like religion, kids situation, drinking habits and hating country music, that if I still had a full head of hair and an athletic body, my response rate to my first messages would be a lot higher than the 10-15% that it is..... even with the fact that in my dating pool, the ratio of men to women is almost 3 to 1. And it is also obvious with online dating, including with my choices, that the first factor people use in narrowing their choices for who to connect with, is how attractive the photos look, and then moving on from there to see how compatible the rest of the profile appears to be, on paper, so to speak.

Ex-FBI Official Says Trump's Nuclear Information Had High 'Price Tag'

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 9, 2022:

His ass should be in prison for espionage, not Assange's, but that difference shows how our system has one set of rules and justice for those rich and connected with the establishment and another set for those like Assange, who aren't and who dare expose and challenge the establishment.

Physical Attraction

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 9, 2022:

Sorry, not sorry... Sex is not important enough to me to date someone whose values are diametrically opposed to mine, and, while sexual attraction is important to me in choosing who to date, it's never been enough for me to keep seeing someone that I am otherwise not compatible with and who does not share my values. I won't even maintain a friendship with someone whose values are extremely oppositional to mine.

The Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen - on the river Thames - YouTube

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 8, 2022:

I always liked what Elvis Costello said about the royals, something like, " Why do we still have them? All they do is attend ceremonies and spend their whole life on holiday".... The hypocrisy of the rich royals preaching austerity is jaw-dropping...

Federal lawsuit challenges Oklahoma anti-transgender bathroom law

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 8, 2022:

Bigoted, Bible-thumping rednecks...